Download or read book Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings written by Eric Schiller and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the powerful Caro-Kann, a favorite weapon of great players, you'll learn how to come right out of the gate and defend against 1.d4, the most popular first move in chess. This is a great beginners book because readers need to learn just one strong opening system, and it can be used to combat all of Whites 1.d4 openings. You'll learn every option and strategy White can throw on the board, the correct plan to combat them all, and how to seize the initiative and take control of the game. Up-to-date analysis includes examples from world-class games. Includes more than 350 diagrams and clear explanations. 300 pages

Download or read book Seventh Book of Chess written by Fred Reinfeld and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings written by Eric Schiller and published by Cardoza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This aggressive counterattacking repertoire covers Black opening systems against virtually every opening except for 1.e4 (plus most flank games), based on the exciting and powerful Tarrasch Defense, which helped win Kasparov and Spassky championships. Black learns the Classical Tarrasch, Symmetrical Tarrasch, Asymmetrical Tarrasch, Marshall and Tarrasch gambits, and Tarrasch without Nc3, to achieve early equality or even an outright advantage in the first few moves. This is an important opening book for aggressive players looking for an edge. 288 pages

Download or read book King s Pawn Opening the 2 Ke2 System written by David Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chess monograph called "King's Pawn Opening: The 2. Ke2 System" which explores this chess opening: "1. e4 and 2. Ke2". The author has played 80 completed chess games where he won 57 games, lost 20 games, and drew 3 games. All these chess games are recorded in Algebraic Chess Notation. And there are 68 chess diagrams, too.

Download or read book How to Play the King Pawn Openings written by Fred Reinfeld and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Play the Chess Openings written by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, profound examinations of just what each opening is intended to do and how opponent can counter. Many sample games.

Download or read book Tricky King Pawn Openings written by Fm Bill Jordan and published by Chess for Club Players. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricky King Pawn Openings Understanding tricky openings can help you sometimes win quickly and avoid losing quickly. Sometimes its the other way round, either way they can be great fun. Using text and diagrams, FIDE Master and former Australian correspondence champion Bill Jordan shows you how. The Open game (1.e4 e5) offers better chances for an early tactical skirmish than any other openings. Both players have made a first move that activates their pieces as much as possible. Its also likely both sides will castle quicker than after 1.d4. This book is designed to give an overview of tricky openings. It is not meant to be an exhaustive analysis of every tricky opening. It is meant to make readers aware of some of the tricky openings that exist. You are encouraged to research openings in depth that you wish to play. What Is A Tricky Opening? Tricky openings vary in their soundness. Some offer equal chances, others are inferior against best play. Whether they are worth playing depends on the context. It depends on the strengths of the players, the time limit and the seriousness of the game. In unrated blitz games, it is worth playing any tricky opening that interests you. In games where rating points, tournament places etc are in stake, then whether to play a risky opening and which one may need to be made carefully. Tricky openings can be introduced by either player. Some tricky openings can be met with even trickier responses. Some players play the same opening over and over. This was more common in the pre-computer era. These days it sets you up to be met with well prepared opponents who have used databases and engines to study your tricky opening. If you vary your openings, you keep your opponent's guessing. If you know you opening is someone who doesn't bother preparing, then you may not need to. What are some tricky openings? Balanced, including symmetrical positions tend to lead to solid openings. Unbalancing the position, especially with gambits and sacrifices, tends to lead to tactical dynamic positions. Both sides castling kingside early is more likely to lead to a quiet game. Castling on opposite sides or one or both kings not castling at all, tends to lead to a more dynamic game. Open positions tend to more tactical than closed positions, though some closed positions can be quite tactical. Why play tricky openings? Tricky openings tend to lead to more interesting positions, at least in the early part of the game. You may play tricky openings just for fun. Playing tricky openings for fun can be especially good in social games or blitz games. You may play tricky openings to practice your tactics and play in dynamic positions. They may help you understand the initiative better. You may play tricky openings to increase your chances of winning. This is especially the case if your opponent knows less about the opening than you do! You may want to be prepared if an opponent plays a tricky opening on you. GM Nigel Short gave a lecture in Adelaide in 2016. His topic was the Evans gambit, which definitely falls in the category of tricky openings. He said to club players, "Don't play something dull like the Berlin defence to the Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6) which often leads to an early queen exchange. Play sexy chess". Types of tricky openings Tricky openings vary from lines where White is taking no risk at all, but play is tricky, to openings that take huge risk, like the crazy Halloween attack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5!?) White and Black tricky openings Either White or Black can initiate a tricky variation. Sometimes a tricky opening move can be countered with a tricky reply. Inventing your own tricky openings The more tricky opening moves you become familiar with, the easier it will be to stump your opponents with your own outrageous moves.

Download or read book Keep It Simple 1 d4 written by Christof Sielecki Christof Sielecki and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the success of his award-winning book ‘Keep it Simple 1.e4’ International Master Christof Sielecki is back. His new repertoire based on 1.d4 has a similar profile: variations that are straightforward and easy to remember, and require little or no maintenance. Sielecki has created a reliable set of opening lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to dominate Black from the opening, by simple means. You don’t need to sacrifice anything or memorize long tactical lines. His main concept is for White to play 1.d4, 2.Nf3, 3.g3, 4.Bg2, 5.0-0 and in most cases 6.c4. Sielecki developed this repertoire while working with students who were looking for something that was easy to understand and easy to learn. This new 1.d4 repertoire may be even easier to master than his 1.e4 recommendations, because it is such a coherent system. Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.

Download or read book Winning Chess Openings written by Yasser Seirawan and published by Everyman Chess. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start every game with confidence! The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defense formations in the process. Winning Chess Openings shows you how to do both. In Yasser Seirawan's entertaining, easy-to-follow style, you're shown formations that can be used with other White or Black pieces. Winning Chess Openings will help you develop a solid understanding of opening principles that you can apply to every game you play without having to memorise a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines. * Build a safe house for a King * Estimate losses of ten moves or fewer * Utilise the elements: time, force, space and pawn structure * Plan strategy based on time-tested opening principles * Employ a defense for Black against any White Opening * Apply an opening for White used by World Champions Winning Chess Openings will help readers develop a solid understanding of opening principles that can be applied to every game they play--without having to memorize a dizzying array of tedious and lengthy opening lines.

Download or read book The Queen s Gambit written by Walter Tevis and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​ When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient

Download or read book King Pawn Openings written by Dražen Marović and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1975 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastering the Chess Openings written by John Watson and published by Gambit Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on the ideas and strategies for chess openings.

Download or read book Chess Openings Theory and Practice written by I. A. Horowitz and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speaking for myself and for players of my strength, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice is the greatest aid I have ever seen for preparing for a tournament. Speaking for all other players, the book is a "must." Current thinking on all important lines is meticulously presented, offering myriad, clear-cut ideas a completely new and effective arsenal of weapons. "-Samuel Reshevsky, United States Open Champion." Chess Openings Theory and Practice is a remarkable book, unequaled by any book of that era or since. It is not a mere openings book with long columns of moves followed at the end by punctuation marks such as + -- or =. It presents opening ideas and games, often including the first game where each opening was played, plus the history of the opening, the names of famous players who played this opening and the ideas and plans on which the opening is based. It provides "idea variations." These are variations that may not actually occur in actual practice, but are what you would play if given the chance. No other book does that, at least not in English and not to this extent.

Download or read book Chess Openings for Black Explained written by Lev Alburt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows you how to start your chess games as dynamically and accurately as the greatest grandmasters in the world.

Download or read book King Pawn written by Tim Sawyer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Try the Open Games with 1.e4 e5. Enjoy sharp openings and fast tactics. Have fun. Win quickly! Tim Sawyer shares his adventures in these openings. The author tells stories from 45 years of play vs masters, experts and club players. Tim provides you with opening insights on theory from main lines to gambits. This paperback version has 202 games, updated commentary and an index of player names to the game numbers. This book covers the Vienna Game, King's Gambit, Latvian Gambit, Italian Game, Ruy Lopez and others. Double King Pawn defenses are played by grandmasters from both sides of the board. You can find checkmate themes in all these openings. To help you, related games are grouped together. You will find games full of interesting ideas from years of the author's own writing. They provide creative ideas and ways to improve. Consider new strategies and tactics and your interest will soar! When the author tried new variations 30 years ago, it turned his own career around and led to higher ratings. You are going to win games that you want to show your friends. Stay excited. Have fun playing chess!

Download or read book The Caro Kann written by Lars Schandorff and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chess the Caro-Kann opening is one of Black's most reliable answers to 1.e4. It is a regular favorite of elite players, who know that computer-aided preparation now threatens the sharpest lines of the Sicilian or Ruy Lopez (at the very least with a forced draw). The Caro-Kann is less susceptible to such forcing lines - Black sets out to equalize in the opening, and win the game later.Grandmaster Lars Schandorff reveals a bulletproof chess opening repertoire and lucidly explains how Black should play the middlegame and endgame.

Download or read book Chess Openings For Dummies written by James Eade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your chess game the fast and easy way You never get a second chance to make a first impression?especially in the game of chess! Chess Openings For Dummies gives you tips and techniques for analyzing openings and strategies for winning chess games from the very first move you make! This friendly, helpful guide provides you with easy-to-follow and step-by-step instructions on the top opening chess strategies and gives you the tools you need to develop your own line of attack from the very start. Includes illustrations to help ensure victory Equips you with the tools and strategies to plan a winning strategy Also serves as a valuable resource for curriculums that use chess as a learning tool Whether you?re a veteran or novice chess player, Chess Openings For Dummies is the ultimate guide to getting a grip on the openings and variants that will ensure you have all the right moves to open and win any chess game.